On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:26:34 -0800, mike wrote:

On 11/13/2012 8:19 AM, wrote:


The problem is my kid wants a color printer and the wife concurs.

Tell the wife and kid that there will be a coin jar next to the printer.
They'll have to put in a quarter for every page printed.
Plus, since the head clogs if you don't use it, there'll be an
additional 50-cents/day surcharge...and they'll have to pre-pay.
See if they still want a color printer.

Unless you're in advertising, color is wasteful.


I can't believe all the color (laser) printers at work. One has to go
out of one's way to print in B&W. Most of them do ledger, too. Yes,
wasteful, for the most part, but in some cases color is useful.

I have a couple of color printers at home but they're never used so
they don't. I also have a B&W laser that doesn't get used much but at
least it does work. Aftermarket cartridges are cheap enough, too.

You can buy a digital picture frame for less than the cost to
print all those pictures in color.

Different.

For most of us, taking the flash card into Walgreens for printing
costs less than owning a color printer.

The cost of owning is nothing. The cost of *using* is huge. ;-)